18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: A mixture of stuff, mostly Katte related

[mildred_of_midgard]

Also,

scribbled_anecdotes read this paper that posed the theory that Algarotti might have been Frederick’s first sexual partner in ten years (debatable, but we’re not here for that)

reminds me that on Salon's wishlist for the archives are the supposedly anatomically explicit Gröben letters!